Gtk-gnutella

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Gtk-gnutella is an open-source Unix client for the Gnutella network, based on the [[GTK+]] toolkit.

Features

Gtk-gnutella supports a large range of the features of modern Gnutella clients including:

0.6 Gnutella Protocol (Gnet)
Gnet traffic compression
Gnet extensions such as HUGE, BYE and other vendor packets
Download Swarming
PARQ (Passive/Active Remote Queueing)
Swarming (downloading different bits of the file from multiple servents)
PFSP (Partial File Sharing Protocol) - allows partial downloads to be shared, a little like BitTorrent

History

Gtk-gnutella was originally written as a visual clone (i.e. to look like) the original Nullsoft Gnutella client. The original author Yann Grossel stopped working on the client in early 2001. After a while Raphael Manfredi took over as the main software architect, and the client has been in active development ever since.

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